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In praise of waterfalls

About 3 pages (847 words)

The Boston Globe, October 3rd, 1999

George H. Rosen is a freelance writer who lives in Gloucester. If there are waterfalls in hell, they must be treated like the torrent at Montmorency, just outside the city of Quebec. Higher than Niagara, as the brochures endlessly point out, and majestic when admired from a tourist boat on the Saint Lawrence, from closer in youcan barely see it. In front of the cascade, a cable car rises like a bloated housefly. Above it, an observation bridge, built on a massivetrestle, clutters the sky. When my family visited Montmorency this summer, temporary wooden stands worthy of a drag-racing strip sat ...

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